誰ヶ袖蒔絵重箱|Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with “Whose Sleeves?” (Tagasode) Design

Unknown Artist

18th century

誰ヶ袖蒔絵重箱|Stacked Food Box (Jūbako) with “Whose Sleeves?” (Tagasode) Design by Unknown Artist

Medium

Lacquered wood with gold and silver hiramaki-e, gold- and silver-foil application, and mother-of-pearl inlay on gold nashiji (“pear-skin”) ground

Dimensions

H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); W. 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm); L. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)

Classification

Lacquer

Culture & Period

Japan · Edo period (1615–1868)

Department

Asian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, 2015

Accession Number

2015.300.288a–e

Tags

Butterflies

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